Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before your face I humbly kneel, and
with burning soul pray and beseech you to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith,
hope and charity, true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment, while I
contemplate with great love and tender pity your five wounds, pondering over them within
me, calling to mind the words which David, your prophet, said of you, my good Jesus:
"They have pierced my hands and my feet; they have numbered all my bones" (Ps
21, 17-18).

A plenary indulgence is granted on each Friday of Lent and Passiontide to
the faithful, who after Communion piously recite the above prayer before an image of
Christ crucified;